Anto Carte

Antoine "Anto" Carte (8 December 1886 - 15 February 1954) was a Belgian painter.

Memorial plaque to Anto Carte in Brussels at 1050, rue de l'Ermitage, 46

Antoine Carto was born in Mons in 1886. His father was a joiner.[1] Anto Carte was first apprenticed to François Depooter, an interior painter, and then studied art at the academies of Mons and Brussels, and in Paris. He started working in a Symbolist style, but after the First World War became a Flemish Expressionist painter in the style of the painters of the group of Sint-Martens-Latem like Gustave Van de Woestijne. In 1917 he had his first exposition, of illustrations he made for a work by Emile Verhaeren. He exposed together with the Flemish Expressionists at the 1923 Salon d'Automne in Paris. He had a solo exhibition in Pittsburgh, at the Carnegie Institute, in 1924, where all 60 paintings were sold.[1] Retrospective exhibitions at the Museum of Mons were organised in 1949 and in 1995.[2]

Later in his career, he designed many posters and stained glass windows, including in 1927 the windows for a new building at the University of Mons-Hainaut. He also designed a 50 Belgian Francs banknote.[2]

In 1928, he founded the art group Groupe Nervia together with Louis Buisseret. From 1932 on, he was a professor at the La Cambre school and at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels.[2]

He lived most of his career in Braine-le-Château, and died in Ixelles in 1954.[2]

Notes
  1. "Anto Carte" (in French). Mons. Archived from the original on 26 April 2019. Retrieved 12 December 2018.
  2. De Geest, Joost (2006). 500 chefs-d'oeuvre de l'art belge (in French). Lannoo. p. 73. ISBN 9782873864705.
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